A man has been charged with dangerous driving after narrowly missing a pedestrian and crashing into a lamp-post in a busy Wishaw street.

The crash in North Dryburgh Road in Coltness has prompted fresh calls for traffic calming measures to be installed before someone is seriously injured or killed.

Police told the Wishaw Press that the crash, which happened on Sunday, February 24, saw one car trying to overtake another in the busy street.

The silver Ford Fiesta then tried to return to the nearside carriageway and clipped the front wing of another car, also a Fiesta.

This caused the car to crash into the lamp-post narrowly missing a pedestrian.

Two men were then seen running off from the scene by witnesses.

A Police Scotland spokesman said: “The 28-year-old male owner of the car was traced at the scene.

“He subsequently attended at Wishaw University Hospital where he was treated for minor injuries. He claimed not to have been the driver at the time of the accident and refused to disclose driver details to police.

“He is subject to a report to the Procurator Fiscal for various road traffic offences including dangerous driving, failing to provide driver details to police and driving without insurance.”

The accident happened outside the home of Stuart Torrance who contacted the Wishaw Press and MP Marion Fellows about the ongoing problem.

He said: “I was visiting my mum and when I got back I couldn’t get into my house.

“One witness told me he had to jump over my wall to avoid being hit by the car.

“The car smashed into the lamp-post. If they had went on another 10 feet it would have went through my gate.

“It’s ridiculous. I’ve got three kids who play out there.”

Coltness councillor Cameron McManus first spoke out on reducing speed in the street back in 2017 along with members of Coltness Community Council.